Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up 'the body' for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today's issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O'Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
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... universe through their bodies and their own bodies through the universe – each to each a cosmic model of totality and proportion - today they must think systems and structures without embodied subjects ( Barkan , 1975 ; Conger , 1922 ) ...
... universe , and we shall examine something of this in the imagery of the body politic ( Chapter 3 ) . The literal and figura- tive traditions of microcosmography are characteristic of medieval and Renaissance thought : In the literary ...
... universe within the fourfold imaginative body of Albion : And every Man stood Fourfold . Each Four Faces had . One to the West One toward the East . One to the South One to the North . the Horses Fourfold And the dim Chaos brightened ...